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In 2018, the EU-28 employment rate for persons aged 20 to 64, as measured by the EU labour force survey (EU LFS), stood at 73.1 %, the highest annual average ever recorded for the EU. Behind this average, large differences between countries can nevertheless be found (see Map 1 and Tool 1). Sweden is the only EU Member State with an employment rate above 80 % (82.6 %). Más ...

The EU-28 had close to 182 million hectares of forests and other wooded land, corresponding to 43 % of its land area (excluding lakes and large rivers; see Table 1). Wooded land covers a slightly greater proportion of the land than is used for agriculture (some 41 %). In seven EU Member States, more than half of the land area was wooded in 2015. Más ...

Across the whole of the EU-28, less than one fifth (17.4 %) of the core working-age population living in their Member State of birth possessed at most a lower secondary level of education in 2018 (see Figure 4), while the corresponding share among foreign-born population of core working-age was 30.4 %.
In 2018, Italy (48.7 %), Spain (39.7 %) and Greece (39.1 %) had the highest proportions of foreign-born persons with low educational attainment, although in Italy and Spain a relatively high share of their native-born core working-age population also had at most a lower secondary level of educational attainment. Más ...

For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-size consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 2 500 kWh < consumption < 5 000 kWh), electricity prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Denmark (EUR 0.3123 per kWh), Germany (EUR 0.3000 per kWh) and Belgium (EUR 0.2937 per kWh); see Figure 1. The lowest electricity prices were in Bulgaria (EUR 0.1005 per kWh), Lithuania (EUR 0.1097 per kWh) and Hungary (EUR 0.1118 per kWh). Más ...

For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-sized consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 20 Gigajoules (GJ) < consumption < 200 GJ), natural gas prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Sweden, Italy and Denmark (see Figure 1), and lowest in Hungary, Romania and Croatia. Más ...

Throughout the period 2008-2018 there were relatively small fluctuations in the exchange rates between the euro and currencies of Bulgaria, Czechia and Sweden, with the overall appreciation of the euro between 2.6 % and 6.3 % during the period under consideration. By contrast, the euro depreciated slightly (0.04 %) against the Danish krone between 2008 and 2018, while the exchange rate between the euro and the Bulgarian lev was unchanged. Más ...

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In 2018, the EU-28 employment rate for persons aged 20 to 64, as measured by the EU labour force survey (EU LFS), stood at 73.1 %, the highest annual average ever recorded for the EU. Behind this average, large differences between countries can nevertheless be found (see Map 1 and Tool 1). Sweden is the only EU Member State with an employment rate above 80 % (82.6 %). Más ...

The EU-28 had close to 182 million hectares of forests and other wooded land, corresponding to 43 % of its land area (excluding lakes and large rivers; see Table 1). Wooded land covers a slightly greater proportion of the land than is used for agriculture (some 41 %). In seven EU Member States, more than half of the land area was wooded in 2015. Más ...

Across the whole of the EU-28, less than one fifth (17.4 %) of the core working-age population living in their Member State of birth possessed at most a lower secondary level of education in 2018 (see Figure 4), while the corresponding share among foreign-born population of core working-age was 30.4 %.
In 2018, Italy (48.7 %), Spain (39.7 %) and Greece (39.1 %) had the highest proportions of foreign-born persons with low educational attainment, although in Italy and Spain a relatively high share of their native-born core working-age population also had at most a lower secondary level of educational attainment. Más ...

For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-size consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 2 500 kWh < consumption < 5 000 kWh), electricity prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Denmark (EUR 0.3123 per kWh), Germany (EUR 0.3000 per kWh) and Belgium (EUR 0.2937 per kWh); see Figure 1. The lowest electricity prices were in Bulgaria (EUR 0.1005 per kWh), Lithuania (EUR 0.1097 per kWh) and Hungary (EUR 0.1118 per kWh). Más ...

For household consumers (defined for the purpose of this article as medium-sized consumers with an annual consumption within the range of 20 Gigajoules (GJ) < consumption < 200 GJ), natural gas prices during the second half of 2018 were highest among the EU Member States in Sweden, Italy and Denmark (see Figure 1), and lowest in Hungary, Romania and Croatia. Más ...

Throughout the period 2008-2018 there were relatively small fluctuations in the exchange rates between the euro and currencies of Bulgaria, Czechia and Sweden, with the overall appreciation of the euro between 2.6 % and 6.3 % during the period under consideration. By contrast, the euro depreciated slightly (0.04 %) against the Danish krone between 2008 and 2018, while the exchange rate between the euro and the Bulgarian lev was unchanged. Más ...

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In 2016, healthy life years at birth for women in the EU-28 was between 54.9 years in Latvia and 73.3 years in Sweden, while that for men was between 52.3 years in Latvia and 73.0 years in Sweden. Más...